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Norito: A Translation of the Ancient Japanese Ritual Prayers _ Donald L. Philippi MONONOKE o per fare sfoggio diPrinceton University Press ed., 1990, 136 pag. isbn 9780691014890 This volume presents the only English translation of the prayers of Japan's indigenous religious tradition, Shinto. These prayers, norito, are works of religious literature that are basic to our understanding of Japanese religious history. Locating Donald Philippi as one of a small number of scholars who have developed a perceptive approach to the problem of "hermeneutical distance" in